308: Play Pits Founder Chantel Powell Talks Growing Her Company From Her Kitchen To Target Shelves
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week in the guest chair we have an update episode with Chantel Powell, the CEO of Play Pits. Play Pits is a mother's solution to providing a kid-friendly, all-natural hygiene option for youth with active lifestyles. It is a 100% all natural deodorant, free of aluminum, parabens, synthetic fragrances and other harsh chemicals.
Play Pits has been featured on Good Morning America, in Essence, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, in Beyoncé’s Black Parade and more. In March 2022, Play Pits launched in 364 Target stores nationwide.
In this episode Chantel shares:
- How she grew Play Pits from the kitchen to Target shelves
- How the launch in Target has exceeded expectations and how the product is actually selling out on the shelves!
- What she's learned from working with a major retailer and navigating growing her company
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:07.1 | side hustle from passion project to profitable business. |
| 0:10.9 | And I'm your host, Nikaela Matthewsekome. |
| 0:13.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey, hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:21.1 | It's Nikaela here. |
| 0:22.1 | And today we have an update episode with Chantelle Powell, the CEO of PlayPit. |
| 0:28.1 | Now you may remember Chantelle from episode 188, where she shared that she found herself |
| 0:33.6 | shuttling her son Cameron between summer baseball camp and football practice. |
| 0:38.4 | And he came into her car smelling like a grown man. |
| 0:41.5 | So she knew that she needed to create a solution. |
| 0:44.4 | Now that solution that she came up with in her kitchen and tested on family members |
| 0:49.4 | is now a certified brand that is on target shelves in today's episode. |
| 0:54.4 | She shares with us the journey that has happened since she was last in our guest chair. |
| 0:59.6 | Oh, and she also has a special offer code for you guys to shop playpits over on playpits.com |
| 1:06.0 | and get 15% off. |
| 1:07.7 | So listen out for that. |
| 1:09.2 | All right. |
| 1:10.2 | Now let's get into it. |
| 1:14.2 | So Chantelle, welcome, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:17.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm really excited to talk to you. |
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